Midge Decter was a major figure whose historical importance has been obscured for many reasons (including, ironically, a sexism she herself supported). One big achievement was she invented the whole rhetorical strategy of "making up a guy to get mad at."
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Is there a transcript of Moyn's lectures anywhere? I think what happened was that she and her husband moved from being penetrating, quirky cultural critics of modernity to toad-eating lickspittles when they scented power; & their son has now performed the reverse journey...
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You can listen to lectures here, but I think the published form will be later this year.
@samuelmoyn?https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/event/the-carlyle-lectures-2022-the-cold-war-and-the-canon-of-liberalism … - Show replies
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